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Putin, Xi vow closer ties as Russia bombards Ukraine again
thehill.com ^ | 12/30/2022 | FELIPE DANA, Associated Press

Posted on 12/30/2022 3:52:05 PM PST by bitt

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed Friday to deepen their bilateral cooperation against the backdrop of Moscow’s 10-month war in Ukraine, which weathered another night of drone and rocket attacks following a large-scale missile bombardment.

Putin and Xi made no direct mention of Ukraine in their opening remarks by videoconference, which were broadcast publicly, before going into private talks. But they hailed strengthening ties between Moscow and Beijing amid what they called “geopolitical tensions” and a “difficult international situation,” with Putin expressing his wish to extend military collaboration.

“In the face of increasing geopolitical tensions, the significance of the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership is growing as a stabilizing factor,” said Putin, whose invasion of a neighboring country has been stymied by fierce Ukrainian resistance and Western military aid.

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1 posted on 12/30/2022 3:52:05 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

Smoke em if ya got em...Biden has set US up...


2 posted on 12/30/2022 3:52:47 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

Xi probably laughed all the way back to Peking.


3 posted on 12/30/2022 3:55:25 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: bitt

day fixn ta git usalls kilt


4 posted on 12/30/2022 3:56:06 PM PST by norsky ( <P><img src=" "width=400"></img> <P> <a href= > </a>)
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To: bitt
Bolsonaro to be replaced by a commie.


5 posted on 12/30/2022 4:03:31 PM PST by Pollard ( >>> The Great Reset is already underway! <<<)
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To: bitt
..... I figure that after the planned diminishing of American Economic and Political Power we are now seeing orchestrated on the National and World Stages .... The new Economic power behind the rising New World Order after the Great Reset outlined by the UN Agendas will be the New Sino-Russian Economic Machine.

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6 posted on 12/30/2022 4:04:47 PM PST by R_Kangel ("A nation of sheep will beget a nation ruled by wolves")
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To: bitt

I can’t understand why the United States is leading all those Ukes to slaughter.

It’s like they are just trying to buy time, but for what?


7 posted on 12/30/2022 4:14:56 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: bitt

Comrade Xi got a good look at the Russian army in action and was duly unimpressed. He has to be thinking that Russia’s rich Pacific Asian territories and the treasure house of Siberia are much more tempting targets than Taiwan. Without nuclear weapons, Russia would be much smaller.


8 posted on 12/30/2022 4:27:23 PM PST by allendale
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China need Russia in the upcoming war with Japan/US . Xi might be able to intimidate Biden and Harris but not Japan. He will need the Russian Pacific Fleet and the oil pipeline from Russia to keep going—if war happens. Russia will be a good ally in that encounter—Siberia can wait for now. India is a rival, so is South Korea Japan and Vietnam.


9 posted on 12/30/2022 4:39:04 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: allendale

“Without nuclear weapons, Russia would be much smaller.”

Without nuclear weapons Russia wouldn’t be that much bigger than Saudi Arabia in size. Economically, it would be second-world, at best.

Economically, even today Russia is ranked #12 globally, behind such powers as Italy, Brazil, Canada, and South Korea, none of which have nukes.


10 posted on 12/30/2022 4:43:23 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: bitt

Guess the New World Order wont be includin us


11 posted on 12/30/2022 4:44:40 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: bitt

Russia has been getting tight with China for a long time. See the dates below, and look at some of the links in the thread of the first post.

US TOLD TO LEAVE CENTRAL ASIA [Russia & China demand “deadline.”]
July 6, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1437369/posts

Russia, N.Korea, China give Iran missile aid -CIA
September 8, 2001
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/519198/posts


12 posted on 12/30/2022 4:55:27 PM PST by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: bitt

if Russia is still bombarding Ukraine,

then obviously Russia is not interested in peace


13 posted on 12/30/2022 5:03:57 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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I hope the people of Taiwan know that the Butchers of Beijing are watching Vlad closely...knowing that he will prevail in the end.


14 posted on 12/30/2022 5:23:16 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: R_Kangel

A machine whose combined economies are are significantly smaller than the United States’ economy by itself…


15 posted on 12/30/2022 5:26:38 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: Gay State Conservative
knowing that he will prevail in the end

and how will he do that?

Russia is in retreat and begging for peace talks ... that's not someone who's winning


16 posted on 12/30/2022 5:36:09 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: GreenLanternCorps

The China/ Russian/ Indian Brics Plus Alliance is almost 70 percent of the worlds population.

The West is bankrupt, they are not.


17 posted on 12/30/2022 5:40:03 PM PST by delta7
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To: bitt

A person or political party gaining or maintaining political power by rigging elections is a dictator. Biden and the Democrats are no better than Xi and the Chinese communist party, or Putin and whatever party he’s from.

Xi and Putin are actually *better* in some ways. They don’t push child grooming, homosexuality, race baiting, or transgender ideology!


18 posted on 12/30/2022 6:03:57 PM PST by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: Gay State Conservative

Post-Putin will China be bankrupted trying to manage its new colony of Russia?


19 posted on 12/30/2022 6:14:07 PM PST by spintreebob (ki .)
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To: Big Brother Go to Hell

Old school Comunism isn’t better than third wayism. Probably equally evil. Similar to Communism vs Nazism.


20 posted on 12/30/2022 6:20:07 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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